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==Channel Profile==
 
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'''[[wikipedia:Space (TV channel)|SPACE]]''', a [[Canada|Canadian]] cable channel specialising in Science Fiction, was launched on '''17 October 1997'''. It used the slogan "SPACE: The Imagination Station".
  
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'''[[wikipedia:Space (TV channel)|SPACE]]''', a Canadian cable channel specialising in Science Fiction, was launched on '''17 October 1997'''. It used the slogan "SPACE: The Imagination Station".
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The station ceased to exist as of September 2019 when it was rebranded as '''"CTV-Sci-Fi"'''.
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==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
===[[William Hartnell stories|WILLIAM HARTNELL]]===
 
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[[File:SPACEad 15-9-97.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Print ad for SPACE, Globe and Mail, 15 September 1997]]
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[[File:DW on Space.JPG|thumb|right|500px|Dr Who, weekdays on Space; Globe and Mail, 18 October 1997]]
  
 
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The reason why a single Tom Baker serial was purchased by SPACE, was because they had contracted to buy 130 episodes (which, if stripped five days a week, provided an industry standard run of 26 weeks). However, when the station discovered that the 129th and 130th episodes would be parts one and two of the seven-parter [[Inferno]], they instead acquired this two-parter to make up the 130 episodes they had paid for.  
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The reason why a single Tom Baker serial was purchased by '''SPACE''', was because they had contracted to buy '''130 episodes''' (which, when stripped five days a week, provided an industry standard run of 26 weeks). However, when the station discovered that the 129th and 130th episodes would be parts one and two of the seven-parter [[Inferno]], they instead acquired this two-parter to make up the 130 episodes they had paid for.
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In April 1998, the '''SPACE''' website indicated that the number of viewers over two days for the first broadcast of [[The Sontaran Experiment]] would affect how they would buy '''Doctor Who''' in the future. Clearly the numbers did not impress, as the 1998 fall season (and later) did not feature any new '''Doctor Who''' serials.
  
  
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'''SPACE''' purchased a package of 130 episodes, with several re-run rights.
 
'''SPACE''' purchased a package of 130 episodes, with several re-run rights.
  
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We're not sure of the exact date on which the series commenced, but based on the dates we '''do''' know, the first episode of [[An Unearthly Child]] screened (probably) on Monday, '''20 October 1997''', three days after '''SPACE''' went live. Initially, each episode aired weekdays, with three screenings per day: 7.30am, 1.30pm, and again at 7.30pm. (We've put only the 7.30am slot in the Airdates table.)
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The series commenced three days after '''SPACE''' went live - on Monday, '''20 October 1997''', with [[An Unearthly Child]] at 7.30am, with a replay at 1.30pm, and a third airing at 7.30pm. This "three times a day" schedule remained (mostly) in place through until '''January 1998''', when the third airing at 7.30 pm was switched to 3.30 am the next morning. This new pattern/configuration continued until '''September 1998''', although there was the odd occasion when an episode was pre-empted, or shifted to a slightly earlier or later slot to make way for other programming.
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[[File:SpaceDates1.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Generic sample of Space listings showing the various timeslots; Broadcast Week, Globe and Mail]]
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[[File:Space Tomb.JPG|thumb|right|250px|The Tomb of the Cybermen - in colour!? - 3 February 1998 on SPACE (Winnipeg Free Press)]]
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[[File:ReelSpace21-4-98.JPG|right|thumb|300px|I Was a Doctor Who Monster on Space; Toronto Globe & Mail, 21 April 1998. Like several US newspaper listings, the caption incorrectly stated that McCoy had previously appeared in the series playing one of the monsters!]]
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[[File:SpaceDates2.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Generic sample of Space listings showing the various timeslots; Broadcast Week, Globe and Mail]]
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[[File:SpaceDates3.JPG|right|thumb|350px|Generic sample of Space listings showing the various timeslots; Broadcast Week, Globe and Mail]]
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[[File:SpaceDates4.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Generic sample of Space listings showing the various timeslots; Broadcast Week, Globe and Mail]]
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Episodes were broadcast commercial-free, but with a semi-obtrusive station ident logo at the bottom right corner.
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[[The Chase]] part 6 aired on Friday / Saturday, '''9-10 January'''. From Sunday, '''11 January 1998''', a separate repeat cycle was added to the schedules. Starting at the beginning again with [[An Unearthly Child]], the fresh run aired on Sundays at 8.00am, with a repeat of the same episode at 3.30am Monday morning.
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The "lost" Patrick Troughton serial [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]] had its Canadian television '''debut''' on Tuesday, '''3 February 1998''', a fact that was mentioned in the ''Winnipeg Free Press'' (which incorrectly stated it was in colour!)
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The brief run of 18 Jon Pertwee episodes started on Monday, '''23 March 1998''' through until '''16 April 1998'''.
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And the single Tom Baker serial, [[The Sontaran Experiment]], the last serial of the 130-episode package, aired '''16-17 April 1998''' (with its 3.30am repeat on 18 April).
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As noted above, '''SPACE''' did cast a very close eye on the ratings for this 2-parter in order to determine whether or not they would purchase further Tom Baker serials. Since no additional fourth Doctor stories were shown, it's clear that the ratings did not impress... 
  
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Episodes were broadcast commercial-free, but with a semi-obtrusive station ident logo at the bottom corner.
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From Monday, '''20 April 1998''', the episodes cycled back to [[An Unearthly Child]], again three times a day.  
  
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The series did not perform as expected, with the result that the 7.00pm evening screening was dropped, and the third screening was pushed back to 3.30am of the following morning!
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On Tuesday, '''21 April 1998''', at 8pm, the [[Reeltime Pictures]] documentary '''I Was a Doctor Who Monster''' was shown. This was played again on Sunday, '''28 June 1998''' (at 4pm), Tuesday, '''15 September 1998''' (3pm), and a week later on Saturday, '''26 September 1998''' (also 4pm), and for a final time on Sunday, '''4 April 1999''', at 4.30pm.  
  
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From Sunday, '''11 January 1998''', a separate repeat cycle was added to the schedules. Starting at the beginning again with [[An Unearthly Child]], the fresh run aired on Sundays at 8.00am, with a repeat of the same episode at 3.30am Monday morning. The 8.00am screenings stopped on '''24 January 1999''' (with [[The Chase]] part one); from that date only the 3.30am repeats continued. Those repeats stopped on '''5 April''', with a one-off screening of [[The Space Museum]] part one.  
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On '''25 April 1998''', the early morning repeat of [[The Daleks]] part one was shown at the slightly later time of 4.00am (instead of 3.30am).
  
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[[File:Space Tomb.JPG|thumb|right|250px|The Tomb of the Cybermen, 3 February 1998 on SPACE (Winnipeg Free Press)]]
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One curious side-effect of there being a stream of weekday repeats as well as a separate Sunday/Monday stream, was that for one week in '''May 1998''', the two streams overlapped, so that part five of [[The Keys of Marinus]] aired '''five''' times that week! And later that year on '''27-28 December 1998''', part one of [[The Space Museum]] screened three times!
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The "lost" Patrick Troughton serial [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]] had its Canadian television '''debut''' in '''February 1998''', a fact that was mentioned in the ''Winnipeg Free Press''. (This screening was potentially also the first television screening of the serial since its recovery in 1992.)
 
  
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The brief run of Jon Pertwee 18 episodes started on Monday, '''23 March 1998'''.  
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On '''20 June 1998''', the 3.30am repeat of [[The Web Planet]] part 1 was pre-empted, replaced by three episodes of '''The X Files'''.
  
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And the single Tom Baker serial, [[The Sontaran Experiment]], the last serial of the 130-episode package, aired '''16-17 April 1998'''.
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On '''8 August 1998''', the 3.30am repeat of [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]] part 4 appears to have been pre-empted by a repeat of an '''X Files''' episode. The '''15 August 1998''' showing of [[The Dominators]] episode 5, and the '''22 August 1998''' edition of [[The Mind Robber]] episode five were both at the later time of 4am.
  
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The following week, the station went back to the beginning, and started a second run of repeats, from [[An Unearthly Child]] part one. (The Sunday/Monday repeats stream was up to [[The Keys of Marinus]] at this time.)
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The fifth episode of the final Patrick Troughton story [[The War Games]] aired on '''11 September 1998''' in the usual three slots per day. But starting with episode six of that serial, both the 1.30pm and 3.30am slots were dropped, and from on Monday '''14 September 1998''' on, episodes screened only once per day, at 7.30am.  
  
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On Tuesday, '''21 April 1998''' at 8.00pm, '''SPACE''' screened the Reel Time Pictures made-for-video documentary '''I WAS A DOCTOR WHO MONSTER'''. (This was repeated on
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From Monday, '''19 October 1998''', the 130-episode run cycled back to [[An Unearthly Child]], now only once per week day. The 8am Sunday / 3.30am Monday screenings were still running, and had got as far as [[The Romans]].  
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Tuesday, '''15 September 1998''', at 3.00pm, and again a week later at 4.00pm, and again on '''28 March 1999''' at 4.30pm.)
 
  
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One curious side-effect of there being a stream of weekday repeats as well as a separate Sunday/Monday stream, was that for one week in '''May 1998''', the two streams overlapped, so that part five of [[The Keys of Marinus]] aired three times that week! And later that year on '''27-28 December 1998''', part one of [[The Space Museum]] screened three times!
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The 8am Sunday screenings stopped on '''24 January 1999''' (with [[The Chase]] part one); from that date only the 3.30am repeats continued.
  
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On '''29 March 1999''', the regular 3.30am Monday repeats came to an end, with [[The Time Meddler]]. And with the regular weekday repeats also coming to a natural end two weeks later, the unused "Monday" repeats were slotted into the regular weekday cycle; therefore [[The Sontaran Experiment]] was followed by [[The Ark]] rather than [[An Unearthly Child]].  
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On '''5 April 1999''', the day after the final showing of '''I Was a Doctor Who Monster''', the regular 3.30am Monday repeats came to an end, with [[The Space Museum]] part one. And with the regular weekday repeats coming to a natural end two weeks later, the unused "Monday" repeats were slotted into the regular weekday cycle; therefore [[The Sontaran Experiment]] was followed by [[The Ark]] rather than [[An Unearthly Child]].  
  
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And from that point on, episodes now aired seven days a week at 7.30am, a regular schedule that continued right through until the final episode was aired by SPACE on Friday, '''10 March 2000'''.  
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And from that point on, episodes now aired only once per day, at 7.30am, seven days a week. Under that scheduling, the 130-episdoe run cycled back to [[An Unearthly Child]] from Friday, '''25 June 1999''', then again from Tuesday, '''2 November 1999'''.
  
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In two and a half years, the package of 130 episodes had been cycled through '''six times'''. Adding in the discontinued Sunday/Monday repeats, some of the Hartnell serials also played for a seventh time.  
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At midnight, Tuesday, '''25 January 2000''', the second [[Peter Cushing]] movie, '''"Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD"''' screened. (Midnight screenings are noted under the date on which the movie had most of its run-time, which in this case was early Tuesday morning.) 
  
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On Monday, '''24 January 2000''', the [[Peter Cushing]] movie, '''"Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD"''' screened, at 9.00pm. It was re-run on Saturday, '''25 November 2000''' at 2.00pm.  
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[[The Sontaran Experiment]] aired on '''9-10 March 2000''', bringing to an end the run of episodes on '''SPACE'''.  
  
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This was the final screening of '''Doctor Who''' on '''SPACE''' until the debut of the new series in 2005...  
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In two and a half years, the package of 130 episodes had been cycled through '''eight times'''. Adding in the discontinued Sunday/Monday repeats, some of the Hartnell serials played '''eleven times'''.
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But that wasn't quite the end, as the [[Peter Cushing]] movie '''"Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD"''' was shown '''five''' more times, between '''25 November 2000''' and '''11 December 2001'''.
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That was the end of '''Doctor Who''' on '''SPACE''' - until the arrival of the [[New Series]] on the channel in 2009...
  
  
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Our Airdates table as been extrapolated from archived editions of Benjamin F Elliott's on-going '''This Week In Doctor Who'''.  
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Our Airdates detail comes from the TV magazine ''Broadcast Week'' that came with Toronto's ''Globe and Mail''; this had full listings for the '''SPACE''' channel, including story titles for all screenings bar those during the first five weeks, which just had the series title.
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*[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/search?q=this+week+in+doctor+who&start=0& THIS WEEK IN DOCTOR WHO ARCHIVE]
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The paper's "Favourite TV File" section also grouped programmes alphabetically by title rather than by timeslot, and with the series screening as many as three times per day made searching and compiling the data relatively easy! (These listings often had spelling errors, such as '''"War Machine"''' and '''"Tomb of the Cyberman"''' in the singular.)
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Other screening data has been extrapolated from archived editions of Benjamin F Elliott's on-going '''This Week In Doctor Who'''.  
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*[https://twidw.doctorwhonews.net/channels.php?code=3&detail=broadcast&page=1 This Week In Doctor Who Listings]
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'''''We are indebted to Hugh Pearson for painstakingly researching and compiling all the SPACE airdates'''''.
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==Next Canadian broadcaster==
  
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==Links==
 
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Latest revision as of 22:07, 30 June 2020

SPACE (1997-2001)

Channel Profile

SPACE Logo

SPACE, a Canadian cable channel specialising in Science Fiction, was launched on 17 October 1997. It used the slogan "SPACE: The Imagination Station".

The station ceased to exist as of September 2019 when it was rebranded as "CTV-Sci-Fi".




Stories bought and broadcast

WILLIAM HARTNELL

Print ad for SPACE, Globe and Mail, 15 September 1997
Dr Who, weekdays on Space; Globe and Mail, 18 October 1997

Seventeen stories, 76 episodes:

A An Unearthly Child 4
B The Daleks 7
C Inside the Spaceship 2
E The Keys of Marinus 6
F The Aztecs 4
G The Sensorites 6
J Planet of Giants 3
K The Dalek Invasion of Earth 6
L The Rescue 2
M The Romans 4
N The Web Planet 6
Q The Space Museum 4
R The Chase 6
S The Time Meddler 4
X The Ark 4
Z The Gunfighters 4
BB The War Machines 4


PATRICK TROUGHTON

Six stories, 34 episodes:

MM The Tomb of the Cybermen 4
TT The Dominators 5
UU The Mind Robber 5
WW The Krotons 4
XX The Seeds of Death 6
ZZ The War Games 10


JON PERTWEE

Three stories, 18 episodes:

AAA Spearhead from Space 4
BBB Doctor Who and the Silurians 7
CCC The Ambassadors of Death 7

Only Spearhead from Space aired in colour; the other two Pertwees were in black and white.


TOM BAKER

One story, two episodes:

4B The Sontaran Experiment 2

The reason why a single Tom Baker serial was purchased by SPACE, was because they had contracted to buy 130 episodes (which, when stripped five days a week, provided an industry standard run of 26 weeks). However, when the station discovered that the 129th and 130th episodes would be parts one and two of the seven-parter Inferno, they instead acquired this two-parter to make up the 130 episodes they had paid for.

In April 1998, the SPACE website indicated that the number of viewers over two days for the first broadcast of The Sontaran Experiment would affect how they would buy Doctor Who in the future. Clearly the numbers did not impress, as the 1998 fall season (and later) did not feature any new Doctor Who serials.


PETER CUSHING

One movie:

Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD


Transmission

SPACE purchased a package of 130 episodes, with several re-run rights.

The series commenced three days after SPACE went live - on Monday, 20 October 1997, with An Unearthly Child at 7.30am, with a replay at 1.30pm, and a third airing at 7.30pm. This "three times a day" schedule remained (mostly) in place through until January 1998, when the third airing at 7.30 pm was switched to 3.30 am the next morning. This new pattern/configuration continued until September 1998, although there was the odd occasion when an episode was pre-empted, or shifted to a slightly earlier or later slot to make way for other programming.











Generic sample of Space listings showing the various timeslots; Broadcast Week, Globe and Mail
The Tomb of the Cybermen - in colour!? - 3 February 1998 on SPACE (Winnipeg Free Press)
I Was a Doctor Who Monster on Space; Toronto Globe & Mail, 21 April 1998. Like several US newspaper listings, the caption incorrectly stated that McCoy had previously appeared in the series playing one of the monsters!
Generic sample of Space listings showing the various timeslots; Broadcast Week, Globe and Mail
Generic sample of Space listings showing the various timeslots; Broadcast Week, Globe and Mail
Generic sample of Space listings showing the various timeslots; Broadcast Week, Globe and Mail

Episodes were broadcast commercial-free, but with a semi-obtrusive station ident logo at the bottom right corner.

The Chase part 6 aired on Friday / Saturday, 9-10 January. From Sunday, 11 January 1998, a separate repeat cycle was added to the schedules. Starting at the beginning again with An Unearthly Child, the fresh run aired on Sundays at 8.00am, with a repeat of the same episode at 3.30am Monday morning.

The "lost" Patrick Troughton serial The Tomb of the Cybermen had its Canadian television debut on Tuesday, 3 February 1998, a fact that was mentioned in the Winnipeg Free Press (which incorrectly stated it was in colour!)

The brief run of 18 Jon Pertwee episodes started on Monday, 23 March 1998 through until 16 April 1998.

And the single Tom Baker serial, The Sontaran Experiment, the last serial of the 130-episode package, aired 16-17 April 1998 (with its 3.30am repeat on 18 April).

As noted above, SPACE did cast a very close eye on the ratings for this 2-parter in order to determine whether or not they would purchase further Tom Baker serials. Since no additional fourth Doctor stories were shown, it's clear that the ratings did not impress...

From Monday, 20 April 1998, the episodes cycled back to An Unearthly Child, again three times a day.

On Tuesday, 21 April 1998, at 8pm, the Reeltime Pictures documentary I Was a Doctor Who Monster was shown. This was played again on Sunday, 28 June 1998 (at 4pm), Tuesday, 15 September 1998 (3pm), and a week later on Saturday, 26 September 1998 (also 4pm), and for a final time on Sunday, 4 April 1999, at 4.30pm.

On 25 April 1998, the early morning repeat of The Daleks part one was shown at the slightly later time of 4.00am (instead of 3.30am).

One curious side-effect of there being a stream of weekday repeats as well as a separate Sunday/Monday stream, was that for one week in May 1998, the two streams overlapped, so that part five of The Keys of Marinus aired five times that week! And later that year on 27-28 December 1998, part one of The Space Museum screened three times!

On 20 June 1998, the 3.30am repeat of The Web Planet part 1 was pre-empted, replaced by three episodes of The X Files.

On 8 August 1998, the 3.30am repeat of The Tomb of the Cybermen part 4 appears to have been pre-empted by a repeat of an X Files episode. The 15 August 1998 showing of The Dominators episode 5, and the 22 August 1998 edition of The Mind Robber episode five were both at the later time of 4am.

The fifth episode of the final Patrick Troughton story The War Games aired on 11 September 1998 in the usual three slots per day. But starting with episode six of that serial, both the 1.30pm and 3.30am slots were dropped, and from on Monday 14 September 1998 on, episodes screened only once per day, at 7.30am.

From Monday, 19 October 1998, the 130-episode run cycled back to An Unearthly Child, now only once per week day. The 8am Sunday / 3.30am Monday screenings were still running, and had got as far as The Romans.

The 8am Sunday screenings stopped on 24 January 1999 (with The Chase part one); from that date only the 3.30am repeats continued.

On 5 April 1999, the day after the final showing of I Was a Doctor Who Monster, the regular 3.30am Monday repeats came to an end, with The Space Museum part one. And with the regular weekday repeats coming to a natural end two weeks later, the unused "Monday" repeats were slotted into the regular weekday cycle; therefore The Sontaran Experiment was followed by The Ark rather than An Unearthly Child.

And from that point on, episodes now aired only once per day, at 7.30am, seven days a week. Under that scheduling, the 130-episdoe run cycled back to An Unearthly Child from Friday, 25 June 1999, then again from Tuesday, 2 November 1999.

At midnight, Tuesday, 25 January 2000, the second Peter Cushing movie, "Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD" screened. (Midnight screenings are noted under the date on which the movie had most of its run-time, which in this case was early Tuesday morning.)

The Sontaran Experiment aired on 9-10 March 2000, bringing to an end the run of episodes on SPACE.

In two and a half years, the package of 130 episodes had been cycled through eight times. Adding in the discontinued Sunday/Monday repeats, some of the Hartnell serials played eleven times.

But that wasn't quite the end, as the Peter Cushing movie "Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD" was shown five more times, between 25 November 2000 and 11 December 2001.

That was the end of Doctor Who on SPACE - until the arrival of the New Series on the channel in 2009...


TV listings

Airdates in Canada (Space)
 ← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

Our Airdates detail comes from the TV magazine Broadcast Week that came with Toronto's Globe and Mail; this had full listings for the SPACE channel, including story titles for all screenings bar those during the first five weeks, which just had the series title.

The paper's "Favourite TV File" section also grouped programmes alphabetically by title rather than by timeslot, and with the series screening as many as three times per day made searching and compiling the data relatively easy! (These listings often had spelling errors, such as "War Machine" and "Tomb of the Cyberman" in the singular.)

Other screening data has been extrapolated from archived editions of Benjamin F Elliott's on-going This Week In Doctor Who.


We are indebted to Hugh Pearson for painstakingly researching and compiling all the SPACE airdates.


Next Canadian broadcaster


Links

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